Revelation 13 describes a political, religious and economic union. This union comes out of a revived Roman Empire. Daniel 7 describes animals which are national symbols of four powerful nations. The United Kingdom (lion), United States (eagle), Russia (bear) and Germany (leopard) exist at the End Times. In June 2018, French President Emmanuel Macron proposed a ten-nation military alliance as the lion/bear/leopard merges together. See World Government. What about the religious alliance?

Jesus said unto him, I am the way, the truth, and the life: no man comes to the Father, but by me. Do you believe that I am in the Father, and the Father in me? the words that I speak unto you I speak not of myself: but the Father that dwells in me, he does the works (John 14:6, 10).

What does the world look like right before the Tribulation? Look at the map. Revelation 6 describes fourhorses of different colors. Red is the political horse of communism/socialism. Black is the economic horse of capitalism.

I saw, and behold a white horse: and he that sat on him had a bow; and a crown was given unto him: and he went forth conquering, and to conquer (Revelation 6:2).

White is the religious horse of apostasy inside Catholic and Protestant churches. In 313 AD, Constantine the Great proclaimed religious toleration in the Roman Empire. By 380, Christianity was made the official religion. Church and state merged for the next 1481 years. The rider had a bow and went out to conquer during the Crusades, various inquisitions and conquest of the New World. Arrows are shot from a distance. The rider was given a victors crown and not a royal crown. Apostasy adds or subtracts from the finished work of Jesus Christ.

For the time will come when they will not endure sound doctrine; but after their own lusts shall they heap to themselves teachers, having itching ears; And they shall turn away their ears from the truth, and shall be turned unto fables.(2 Timothy 4:3-4).

I looked, and behold a [chloros] horse: and his name that sat on him was Death, and Hell followed with him. And power was given unto them over the fourth part of the earth, to kill with sword, and with hunger, and with death, and with the beasts of the earth (Revelation 6:8).

Translators have a problem translating chloros green. Not pale but green is the horse of false religion outside the Church. No one has seen a green horse but we see a world religion of death that controls a quarter of the people. The color of Islam is green and people are required to convert to Islam or die.

In 622, Mohammed founded Islam in the Arabian Peninsula and by 711, the religion spread to Spain fighting the white horse before the Crusades. For the last forty years, the green horse has been in the news with the Iran Hostage Crisis, Iran Iraq War, Iraq War I (Persian Gulf), Afghanistan, Iraq War II and a multitude of terrorist attacks by Al-Qaeda, Islamic State, Hamas, Hezbollah and Islamic Jihad. Egypt, Libya, Syria and Yemen had civil wars between Sunni, Shiite, secular and radical Muslims. Then add many Arab-Israel wars.

I beheld another beast coming up out of the earth; and he had two horns like a lamb, and he spoke as a dragon. And he exercised all the power of the first beast before him, and caused the earth and them which dwell therein to worship the first beast, whose deadly wound was healed (Revelation 13:11-12).

The European Union is a mix of apostasy, communism, capitalism and Islam. The ten-nation political alliance gives power to the Antichrist who leads the Beast (European Union/United Nations). The Catholic Church has a worldwide organization but mostly in Europe and Latin America. The Pope is not the Antichrist. After all Christians are raptured, the False Prophet will seize the organization and merge apostate and false religions into the worship of the Antichrist.

Every spirit that confesses that Jesus Christ is come in the flesh is of God: And every spirit that confesses not that Jesus Christ is come in the flesh is not of God: and this is that spirit of antichrist, whereof you have heard that it should come; and even now already is it in the world (1 John 4:2-3).

God told His people what will happen and when. The world was created in six days and God rested the seventh day. Man rules the earth 6000 years and that rule is almost over. It is amazing how many Scriptures are being fulfilled during our lifetime just before the Tribulation.

References: 21st Century Revelation: World Wars, Iraq Wars & End Wars, Chapter 20 - Players in the Game, Chapter 21 - Four Horses on the Run, Chapter 25 - Iraq War III, Daniel's Dream, World Government, World Economy, Seals, Trumpets, Tribulation Articles, Revelation Articles, Covenant Articles, Timeline of the Tribulation